Bishop sees ghost house. By Reg Scott. A bishop has been called in to help three families who say a poltergeist is bombarding them with lumps of coal. The families, who live in flats at
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Gateshead, Tyne and Wear (1963)
Gateshead Family May Call in Medium. Ghost of Bronte Street makes four quit home. A “poltergeist” has forced a widow and her three children to quit their home in Bronte Street, Gateshead. The Coulthard family
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Ghost gets the blame for a blaze. Paul Connew. Barbara Mills knew who to blame when a mystery fire broke out in her kitchen… a mischief-making ghost. Today, 37-year-old Barbara hopes to get rid of
Continue ReadingFrome, Somerset (1963)
It all began when flying crockery hit the wall… Flying crockery started all the trouble. It came whirling across the room and crashed in splinters against the lean-to kitchen wall of an old cottage at
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War Hero flees the house of dancing light bulbs. By Stuart White. An ex-RAF Flight Lieutenant and his wife have threatened to quit their Henley council house because they claim the house is occupied by
Continue ReadingBarlinnie Prison, Glasgow (1969)
Riddle of Scots Prison Ghost. Three men in Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow, claim they have an unwelcome cell mate – a ghost. The reported intruder in a cell in “A” Hall moved in on Friday night
Continue ReadingByker, Newcastle (1964)
Blind city woman says ‘It’s eerie’Switch puzzle scares family. The Newcastle home of a blind woman and her two children has become a house of fear. Strange, unexplained things keep happening to the electric switches
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Screaaming girls visit ‘haunt’ house. Youngsters crowd round the window, others peer in… all trying to see the ghost. Policemen sealed off a “haunted house” yesterday… because the couple who lived there have fled from
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